Is this the minimum distance? Spahn cashes in for Corona-Flop Häme - and reacts

Due to the Corona crisis, strict rules of conduct currently apply in Germany. Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn and colleagues do not always seem to adhere to them.

• The corona virus continues to paralyze public life in Germany
• Discussions about ways out of shutdown are getting louder
• However, certain rules of conduct will have to be observed in the future - which is obviously not so easy
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Munich - It was over three weeks ago that Markus Söder imposed the exit restriction in Bavaria due to the coronavirus pandemic. That was on March 21st. In the days that followed, the Federal Republic followed suit. Now politicians, scientists and other important people are discussing the timetable from the lockdown.

"In the end it is about finding the right balance between health protection, public life and the economy," said Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) on Tuesday in Wiesbaden. There would be "careful first steps" into a new normal. "It's about living with the virus and learning to live."

Corona virus in Germany: Jens Spahn (CDU) with incredible photo glitch - ridicule and malice

An important rule of conduct for the future will be to keep the minimum distance of one and a half, better still two meters in public. This is already required by the current exit restrictions and contact bans .

A number of top politicians, including Spahn, do not seem to take it so seriously. While people in parks, rivers or lakes were sometimes strictly warned of the safety distance by the police at the weekend, the Minister of Health underwent a more than unfortunate faux pas when he met on Tuesday.

Spahn , along with Hesse's Prime Minister Volker Bouffier , Chancellery Minister Helge Braun, Hesse's Minister of Social Affairs Kai Klose and Axel Wintermeyer, the head of the Hessian State Chancellery, visited the university clinic in Gießen to get an overview of the situation in the fight against the corona virus.

Corona virus in Germany: Spahn and the photo gate - "Uff. Hopefully nobody was infected ... "

Unfortunately, the politicians did not act according to the rules of conduct in every situation on this date. So the men mentioned squeezed into an elevator and created a bizarre photo gate that promptly landed on Twitter.

In this elevator in the University Hospital # Gießen are among others: the Federal Minister of Health, the Hessian Prime Minister, the Chancellery Minister, the Hessian Minister of Health, the head of the Hessian State Chancellery. #SpacingKeep pic.twitter.com/FSP4MQFv5O

All elevator occupants wore a face mask , but no one adhered to the required safety distance. SPD member of the Bundestag Karl Lauterbach shared the tweet and commented: “The photo shows very clearly how it should not be done. In addition in a university clinic. Uff. Hopefully nobody was infected ... "

The photo shows exactly how it should not be done. In addition in a university clinic. Uff. Hopefully nobody was infected ... https://t.co/QOkkJiGUhk

Other Twitter users did not hold back for this action with ridicule and malice. One user wrote: "They had" good reasons "to drive in this elevator at the same time ... Otherwise a group of police officers would have appeared there and would have fined them."

Corona virus in Germany: Federal Minister of Health reacts to his photo gate

Another wrote: “This must be the parliamentary immunity that is always mentioned. "

And Jens Spahn himself on Twitter commented on this photo: “Clearly: it can be done better. Keep your distance even with a face mask. And next time just take the stairs. "

Clearly: it can be done better. Keep your distance even with a face mask. And next time just take the stairs.

In contrast to his own behavior, the Federal Minister of Health was satisfied with the behavior of the citizens on Easter weekend . The restrictions due to the Corona crisis have found "a very, very high level of acceptance and support" among the population, he said.

On Wednesday (15th) the government will negotiate a possible easing of the exit restriction starting next week.

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